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Yes, it does in Linux-based browsers, but even then many people install a 32-bit Linux on 64-bit capable hardware.

But I'd agree that for those group of people already using 64-bit Linux and visiting ubuntu.com from it, like yourself, it could totally work. Unfortunately these are the people most likely to already know they should choose 64-bit.

for anyone who has been downloading the dailies, placing the most recent one you have in the location the torrent downloads to with the new name will allow you to only update the changed parts, similar to the way zsync works. in the case of transmission, ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso.part was what it was named, and replacing the actual .part with said daily, then verifying caused it to start downloading at ~75 percent as I had not downloaded in the past few days.

Its not "official" until they send out the e-mail. But they don't put the images up on the releases.ubuntu.com server until they are sure that those are the ones they are going to release (unless something really terrible comes up). This is your chance to download the release version before the actual announcement.

I just gave my wife a choice of Unity or XFCE for installation on the family notebook (sorry KDE guys), and after describing in general terms what they look like and the fact that she's used Unity for 6 months already (I had to remind her what it looks like!) she surprised me a little by saying she did not like Unity. Not that that's a vote for XFCE, but since I said it can look like the old interface used to (Gnome 2) I think she just wanted something without that leftwards menu.

I may have not made myself clear. She's used Unity for 6 months, but I did have to remind her of its basic layout as she's a very light user. However, when presented with the choice she specifically told me that she did not care for Unity's panel.

I'm not going to seed on my phone because I do have a cap on my data plan. I'll definitely seed tonight. However, I am an idiot. Of course I could go to the Ubuntu download page and download the iso on my phone. Cost me less than a gig so I should be good to go.

Turns out I had to turn the console view on and "ok" an ncurses dialog about stopping services that were using NSS.

Obviously this is a bug (or an unintended feature), and a less experienced user would not know what to do and the upgrade would halt. Some sort of automation or a dialog box should come up in this case.

I downloaded the .iso and linked it in to the VirtualBox , fired up the Update Manager and pressed the upgrade button . It didn't manage to finish the upgrade . When I pressed the update button it , on install , tried to access the .iso but was unsuccessful despite the 'CD-ROM' being visible within the file system .

After installing it on my desktop with no problems, I was a bit disappointed when I installed it on my laptop to discover that it doesn't work with WPA Enterprise wifi networks at all. WPA-PSK (the kind you use at home) is fine, WPA-EAP (the kind you use at work or university) not.

Pretty sure the ability to mix-and-match so easily is one of Linux's greatest perks. I can like Ubuntu but not like Unity - and hey, I can easily switch it out with something else! Let's not turn this subreddit into /r/Unity, alright?

I've been on Xfce for the last few months, I'm going to install 12.04 and give the new and improved Unity another chance.

I felt the need to update my previous post in this comment thread - I gave Unity another shot...and I like it! It's not the clunky experience I had in my previous attempts - there's still some rough edges, and I kept my work environment running Xfce, but at home, I made the move back to Unity.